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Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

R. J. Protheroe  and
R. W. Clay
R. J. Protheroe
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005, Australia; (e-mail: rprother@physics.adelaide.edu.au)
R. W. Clay
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005, Australia; (e-mail: rclay@physics.adelaide.edu.au)
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Abstract

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Cosmic rays with energies above 1018 eV are currently of considerable interest in astrophysics and are to be further studied in a number of projects which are either currently under construction or the subject of well-developed proposals. This paper aims to discuss some of the physics of such particles in terms of current knowledge and information from particle astrophysics at other energies.

Keywords

cosmic raysacceleration of particlesmagnetic fieldsdark matterradiation mechanisms: nonthermaldiffuse radiation.
Type
Review
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , 2004 , pp. 1 - 22
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2004

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